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valley, a patch of excellent land belonging to government, and 
lately converted by it into a ftation for cavalry. 
Proceeding up the valley through which the Endlefs river 
meanders, we halted, late in the evening, at a place called the 
Bavian's kloof, where there is a fmall eftablifhment of Mora- 
vian miflionaries, or Hernhiiters, fo called from a village in 
Saxony where an afylum was offered to them after their 
expulfion from Moravia. Thefe people have been feveral 
years in this colony, for the exprefs purpofe of inftruding the 
Hottentots in the dodlrines of Chriftianity, but had met with little 
encouragement, in the objeft of their milTion, under the Dutch 
government. The number of their profelytes have encreafed of 
late to fuch a degree, that they have found it necelTary to fend 
to Europe for more teachers of the gofpel. 
Early in the morning I was awakened by the noife of fome of 
the finefl; voices I had ever heard, and, on looking out, faw a 
group of female Hottentots fitting on the ground. It was 
Sunday, and they had alTembled thus early to chaunt the morning 
hymn. They were all neatly drelTed in printed cotton gowns. 
A fight fo very different to what we had hitherto been in the 
habit of obferving, with regard to this unhappy clafs of beings, 
could not fail of being grateful ; and, at the fame time, it excited 
a degree of curiofity as to the nature of the eftablifhment. The 
good fathers, who were three in number, were well difpofed to 
fatisfy every queflion put to them. They were men of the 
middle age, plain and decent in their drefs, cleanly in their 
perfons, of modeft manners, meek and humble in their deport- 
ment, 
